Strategic Planning

Since NEI was established over 40 years ago, strategic planning activities have culminated in a series of national plans and workshop reports that identify needs and opportunities in vision research. These planning efforts have relied primarily on the expertise of NEI-funded investigators to review the state of the science and describe current research required to advance progress in treating and curing visual disorders and blindness. The most recently completed report (August 2012) is now available: Vision Research: Needs, Gaps, and Opportunities PDF*.

Audacious Goals Initiative

In view of many opportunities and needs, we challenged the research community to identify a long-term audacious goal in vision research to help shape the priorities of NEI. Learn about NEI’s audacious goal and high priority research areas: www.nei.nih.gov/audacious.

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